Saturday, April 30, 2011

nice quotes about myself

nice quotes about myself





nice quotes about myself nice quotes about myself nice quotes about myself



nice quotes about myself nice quotes about myself nice quotes about myself







Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster Spalding



I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903



I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth. ~Bernie Wilke, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998



Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ~Otto Weininger



It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein



In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips



The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest. ~Martin H. Fischer



This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"



One man's folly is another man's wife. ~Helen Rowland



Your Honor, a courtroom is a crucible. In it, we burn away irrelevancies until we're left with a pure product - the truth, for all time. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Measure of a Man," Jean-Luc Picard



If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown



We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott



A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman



I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ~James Michener



If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. ~Henry Ward Beecher



It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau



The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner



Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. ~Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour



I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet

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